Improvement in brushes



I 10H11 L. wHmNG.

Improvement in Brushes.

No. 118,661. Patented Aug. 29, 1371.

Fa-9.1. 171,9: f?

" wizm {Mawr-mey- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

" IMPROVEMENT IN BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,661, dated August 29, 1871.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, J oHN LAKE WHITING, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Brushes; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of one of my improved brushes. Fig. 3 is a bottom view and Fig. et a side view of the handle-butt; and Fig. 5 is a side view of the handle separate from the butt.

In my Letters Patent No. 101,332, dated March 29, 1870, I have represented a brush-handle provided with one or more tubular projections extended irom its butt and to operate with a ferrule in holdingl the bristles to or in connection with the handle. In the said patent the butt and tubular projection or projections were shown as made in one piece with the handle or part extended above the butt.

In carrying out my present invention the butt provided with one or more tubular projections is to be separate from the handle and to have a hole to receive such handle, and may be constructed in one piece or in selnieircular or sectoral sections, to enable it to be more readily expanded; and the handle, where going through the hole of the butt and below such, is to be tapering, in order to expand the bristles into the tubular projection or expand the butt into the bristles and the ferrule, as the case may require, thereby effecting better results or a stronger fasteningof the bristles to the butt and ferrule or the butt to the ferrule.

In the drawing, A denotes the handle and B the butt, the latter being shown as constructed with one tubular projection, a, only, and also with a round, conical, or tapering hole, b, through its central part. O is the ferrule and D the stock or mass of bristles. The handle tapers from its base to its smaller end, so that when driven or while being driven into the butt and the mass of bristles after having first been inserted in the latter it shall expand the bristles into the tubular projection a, and also expand into the ferrule the butt when made in two or more semicircular or sectoral sections, as shown in top view in Fig. Y

6, in which c c are the sections.

When the butt is in one piece the driving of the handle into it may be carried to such extent as to split the butt and crowd it outward iirmly into the ferrule or the grooves thereof. In case of the butt being so split the crack or cracks in it may be afterward filled by one or more wedges or pieces of wood driven and glued or cemented therein; or the cracks may be filled with cement or putty. Fig. 7 is a view of the butt as made with a series of projections, a.

I herein make no claim to the subject of the aforesaid patent; but

What I do claim as my invention is as follows, viz.:

The butt B, as made separate from the handle and provided with the handle-hole b and one or more projections, a, as set forth, and the handle A made tapering to drive into the butt, a-s described, such being for use with the bristles D and ferrule O, essentially as explained and represented.

JOHN LAKE WHIIING.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

